{"id":29579,"date":"2016-10-20T02:36:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T02:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/al-jazeera-journalist-hamza-mohamed-detained-in\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T02:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T02:32:20","slug":"al-jazeera-journalist-hamza-mohamed-detained-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/al-jazeera-journalist-hamza-mohamed-detained-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed detained in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Reporter arrested by Somali security agents in the capital, Mogadishu, along with a driver, fixer and cameraman.}<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed has been detained by Somali security agents in the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed, a British national, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon along with a driver, fixer and cameraman.<\/p>\n<p>He had been in Somalia for a week on a reporting assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed has frequently travelled to the country over the past few years to cover politics, economics and culture for Al Jazeera &#8220;with accuracy and integrity&#8221;, according to a statement released by Al Jazeera Media Network on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Republic of Somalia informed Al Jazeera that Mohamed was being held for questioning and there were no charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera said it has been in touch with Mohamed since his detention and &#8220;is hoping &#8230; that he will be released without further delay&#8221;. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15852 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/9f7e43c28626416a9ccdea7ede9086f0_18.jpg\" alt=\"President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud shakes hands with Al Jazeera&#039;s journalist in September 2014 at the Presidential Palace\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Reporter arrested by Somali security agents in the capital, Mogadishu, along with a driver, fixer and cameraman.} Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed has been detained by Somali security agents in the capital Mogadishu. Mohamed, a British national, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon along with a driver, fixer and cameraman. He had been in Somalia for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29579"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29579"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}